Re: RARA-AVIS: Best opening line of a novel

Mario Taboada (matrxtech@sprintmail.com)
Wed, 17 Dec 1997 12:59:33 +0000 After so much talk about the Gold Medalists and paperback toilers of the
pen, I couldn't resist and opened a couple of boxes of paperbacks. I
ended up spending a couple of hours browsing through stuff I didn't even
remember I had. I found this opening paragraph (it can't be broken down)
fron Richard Prather's literary masterpiece "Gat Heat" (Pocket Books,
1968), featuring the inimitable Shell Scott:

"Sex," she said.

"Yep," I said.

"That's what, all right. You hit it that time. Couldn't have said it
better myself."

"Sex..." she repeated, lingering over the word as one might linger over
the olive in one's first martini.

[N.B. The cover is pretty lurid in a bikini sort of way.]

Regards, and I may have something to say about Vin Packer when I get to
the right box - I know I have some of her stuff, although I don't
remember much about it. Now I'm curious.

Mario Taboada
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